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And just hours after shutting down embassies and consulates in 19 cities in the mideast and africa for the rest of the week. mike baker, former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence llc, a global intelligence and security firm, joins us with more. thank you for joining us, mike. i want to start first with this liquid explosive. what do we know about it, and who is making it? how dangerous is it? >> well, al-qaeda's always been very experimental in terms of trying to identify new delivery mechanisms for explosives. so we've known for a long time, i mean, you look at the under...

Actually necessary. we seem to be unable to keep secrets anymore when it comes to the actual specifics of threats. but, you know, now they've been talking about this, and so what they're trying to do is develop a liquid explosive that would not be detectable -- what they understand as being standard procedures and capabilities right now. and that could include either liquids in the form of a bottle posing as a drink, it could be liquid, interestingly enough, that they actually put clothing or other materials into. then that liquid dries, and suddenly you've got a sweater or whatever it may be ...

>> well, i mean it's a liquid explosive. and it's carried in various separate components, and at least if we go by the model of omar abdulmutallab, those components are only combined when that individual is on board the aircraft. again, the actual instructions for how they built this, aqap published those instructions on the internet. and they published them in english with the note that they were hoping that other people would take these designs and replicate them. and there have been other incidents that, unfortunately, have suggested that perhaps that is the direction in which we're going. ...

Have suggested that perhaps that is the direction in which we're going. an individual stopped at one point traveling through somalia, carrying what appeared to be some kind of liquid explosive inside his clothing. let's hope these are isolated circumstances. that is part of the issue that aqap, al qaeda in yemen, has tried encouraging other terrorist factions to take up this particular recipe, and use it in their own operations. >> let me ask but the future of terrorism. when you go to bed at night, you think about it, an old question. is this the kind of spot opportunity where somebody's goin...

Tongs just the breaking news, the cia discovered and thwarted a plot by a member of al qaeda, or a splinter group in yemen. al qaeda in yemen, to get in to an airline, the passenger to get past surveillance, to go past the equipment of the tsa over there. to get on a plane. my question to you is how do these devices work? how can a passenger carrying something so small in his clothing, in his underwear, that's capable of blowing a hole in an airliner? >> well, i mean it's a liquid explosive. and it's carried in various separate components, and at least if we go by the model of mutallab, those ...